Quotes for August 2048 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A ''Bay Area Bisexual'' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 46 reads

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• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 61 reads

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• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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• All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 114 reads

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• An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 42 reads

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• And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 30 reads

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• As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 23 reads

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 39 votes · 50 reads

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• By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 140 reads

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• Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 73 reads

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• Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 69 reads

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• Education is not received. It is achieved.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 30 votes · 38 reads

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• Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

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  Jean Giraudoux

  NovelistFrench1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 22 reads

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• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 107 reads

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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 52 reads

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• I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 26 reads

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.0 · 11 votes · 177 reads

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• I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 157 reads

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• I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 145 reads

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• I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 124 reads

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• In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 38 votes · 30 reads

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• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 139 reads

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 100 reads

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 118 reads

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• Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 5 votes · 57 reads

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 68 reads

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• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 44 reads

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• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 106 reads

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• People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 65 reads

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• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 80 reads

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• Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 186 reads

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• Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 17 votes · 158 reads

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• Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 129 reads

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• The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 35 reads

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• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 80 reads

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 53 reads

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• There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 154 reads

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• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 73 reads

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• There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 89 reads

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• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 88 reads

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• We are free to yield to truth.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an out

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 98 reads

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• We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 39 votes · 98 reads

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• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 97 reads

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• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 73 reads

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